Rodder
May 5\u2013June 18, 2026
New York<\/p>\n
The art of disarray\u00a0holds particular fascination for Karla Black, who has become increasingly emboldened to test its limits throughout her extensive career. A Post-Minimalist warrant to respect materials, those materials\u2019 natural inclinations to form however they do, and their temporal ways and means inform the core of her practice. For Black, the growth and decay of substances found in land but transposed to rooms is the cultural intervention she takes as her remit. Exhibitions installed in museums and art halls are frequent standard practice in recent years, and these spaces, larger than rooms, have suggested to her that she expand somehow, with overgrowth surely, in the realm of installation threatening to explode its surrounds.<\/p>\n
Anticipating that matters would change in the apartment dwelling which has become Rodder, a new art gallery, was part of the intrigue: would the art absorb aspects not only of scale, but also, more significantly, of an art history anticipating the artist\u2019s own practice?<\/p>\n
Once upon a time, the apartment was an escape, a refuge from the ceremonial formalities and protocols ongoing in public life for those in aristocratic power, where informality inviting conversation\u2014together with music overheard, board games, and laughter\u2014was welcome relief. The d\u00e9cor for such in furniture ensembles\u2014to be assembled and reassembled impromptu\u2014expressed informality, and the rooms were light-filled. Daylight\u2019s shifting patterns invited unpredictable visual play upon elaborated surfaces, the shape-shifting further enhanced by mirrored d\u00e9cor.<\/p>\n
Enter Karla Black. She has noted the Neo-Renaissance apartment that has become an art gallery brings to it a domestic informality decidedly Rococo in sensibility. Her installation, emphatically ornamental, once again brings mirror into the rooms, sited on floor and wall alike through stencils derived from Rococo pattern books freely interpreted in some instances, yet all smeared in oil paints to cosmetic effect. So the disposition to undermine the propriety of the room through disarray of paint on mirror is Black\u2019s way of challenging the structures most related to sculpture. Mirrors smeared with pigments pose a visceral experience, the surface, then nearly covered, becomes a painting on its own terms: oil paints in pastel overlaying each other like a cloudscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RodderMay 5\u2013June 18, 2026New York The art of disarray\u00a0holds particular fascination for Karla Black, who has become increasingly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1149,3458,3457,3459,3456,2878,98,3461,3462,100,99,3455,17,1117,3465,749,2538,9,3463,24,63,3460,3464,905],"class_list":["post-253538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-art","tag-art-books","tag-art-critic","tag-art-reviews","tag-artists","tag-books","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-art","tag-brooklyn-culture","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-contemporary-art","tag-culture","tag-dance","tag-fiction","tag-film","tag-music","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-art-scene","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-phong-bui","tag-poetry","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}